Means for hanging curtains or the like.



C. B. WHITE.

MEANS FOR HANGING CURTAINS OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION TILED 1113.18, 1911.

1,039,343, Patented Sept. 24, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BERNARD WHITE, OE MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES CARR 86SONS, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, A PARTNERSHIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 24:, 1912.

Application filed February 18, 1911. Serial N 0. 609,499.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLns BERNARD,

lVHrrn, designer, a subject of the King of Great Britain andIreland, anda resident of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, England, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Means forHanging Curtains or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

In plaiting or gathering tapes having loosely incorporated draw cords orequivalents and to which tapes are attached curtains, bed hangings, orthe like, it has hitherto always been necessary to suspend the tapesfrom the curtain rods or wires by means of hooks, .rings, or othersuspending appliances which have been quite separately produced from thetape and have required attachment thereto, as for example, by being sewnthereon or by being hooked into or otherwise engaged with loops whichhave been attached to or woven into the tape.

This invention consists in so constructing such a gathering or plaitingtape that its suspending appliances which pass upon and directly engagewith the curtain rod are integrally produced with the tape in theprocess of weaving the same, by weaving in and with the tape a separatecord or equivalent, hereinafter referred to as a cord, in such a mannerthat loops are produced in the cord of a nature, disposition, anddimensions to be passed upon the curtain rod, and, While so passed uponand engaged with such rod, to permit the tape to be properly suspendedfrom the rod and in such relation thereto as has hitherto been permittedto a gathering or plaiting tape by the separately produced hooks or thehke attached to such a tape.

Different tapes formed With different varieties of integral directsuspending loops produced according to this invention are shown in theaccompanying drawings.

Figure 1 shows one variety of tape in View from one side and Fig. 2illustrates it from the other, the latter figure also show ing a curtainrod in place in the loops.

In producing the tape A thus illustrated the main part of it is woven inthe ordinary manner and the usual draw cords B B to effect the plaitingor gathering of the tape when required are incorporated therewith in theordinary or any suitable manner. The cord 0 in which the suspendingloops 0 are formed is laid in a sinuous line on one face of the tape(see Fig. 1) as the tape is being woven by means of devices well knownin tape weaving, and so that, at certain points, preferably centrallyalong the tape as illustrated, the cord is bound into the body of thetape by certain warp ends indicated at m. At any suitable point the cordis led through the shed as at D to a sullicient distance to form a loopof cord 0 to be used in lieu of a separately attached ring or loop to goover and slide upon the curtain rod E and then returns. The cord formingthe loop is bound into the tape at the points where it leaves andreenters the tape, so that the loop C thus formed is permanent. Byproducing a se ries of loops C at suitable distances apart a series ofsuspending loops integral with the tape is produced.

As a convenient method of forming the loops just described thesuspending loop cord C is carried in a shuttle which at intervals duringthe weaving of the tape between suspending loops crosses the shed and isbound or woven into one face of the fabric by certain warp ends. When aloop is to be formed the loop cord immediately after being bound intothe tape is carried by its shuttle below the whole of the warps from thecenter to one edge of the tape and around a pearl warp and arranged at asuitable distance from the edge of the tape according to the length orsize of loop which has to be formed in the cord as a consequence of itspassage around such pearl Warp end. It is then returned around the pearlend and again under the same warp ends, which have remained raised, andis then again bound into the fabric and the formation of a loopprojecting from the center of one face of the tape is completed. Theweaving of the tape with the intermittent binding in of the cord thenproceeds until another loop has to be formed. The shedding of the warpsand the pearl end-to effect their proper move ments is accomplished bythe usual jacquard mechanism. The pearl end is of course, removed fromthe loops when the tape is finished.

Instead of that part of the cord C which forms a suspending loop leavingand recntering the tape at about one and the same central point as shownin Figs. 1 and 2, it may be otherwise disposed. For example,

and as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, a loop C may be formed by the cord 6leaving the tape at one side of a central line along the tape andrentering it at some distance along the tape and at a point to the otherside of the center line. Fig. 3 shows such a tape in face View and Fig.4 shows it in edge View the central part of the tape in this latterfigure being shown as drawn up or plaited or gathered. As before :1?indicates the warp ends by which the cord C is bound into the tape.

What I claim is A gathering or plaiting tape for curtains,

such tape being provided with integral suspending loops for engagementwith the curtain rod and with draw cords for gathering or plaiting,substantially as hereinbefore described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

CHARLES BERNARD WHITE.

Witnesses WILLIAM GEO. HnYs, FRANK A. HEYS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

